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The two reactors at Dominion Energy’s Surry plant are among the oldest in the U.S. nuclear fleet. Yet when the plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023, staff could raise a toast to the future. Surry was one of the first plants to file a subsequent license renewal (SLR) application, and in May 2021, it became official: the plant was licensed to operate for a full 80 years, extending its reactors’ lifespans into 2052 and 2053.
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Impurity Control | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24837
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A mechanism for positioning the Advanced Limiter Test II (ALT-II) limiter blades inside the TEXTOR tokamak is described. Testing of two candidate material pairs for use as gears and bearings, Nitronic 60/aluminum bronze and Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60, is also described. The lubricant was a solid film of MoS2. The testing, done at the temperature and pressure range of the tokamak, revealed that the combination of Nitronic 60 and the softer aluminum bronze performed much better than the Nitronic 60/Nitronic 60 combination. The latter combination performed well for 24,000 cycles (48% of expected lifetime), but then experienced a sudden increase in friction due to galling. The former pair performed well, exhibiting low friction throughout the duration of the test.
